Oh my holy heck!

I never would have guessed little girls wanted to grow up to be like me!

I would totally buy it for RE, so she could push her quad while I push mine!

They want $70 bucks for it...so she will have to just ride in mine.

Wish mine was pink LOL

I ran my August 10k today.
I did not meet my goal of 56.58.
I came close, my net time was 57:22.
I wanted to loose 30 seconds of each mile, but it was more like 20 seconds off each mile.
I was dying at the end, could be that I have not run 6 miles since the race in June :)
It is still 2 1/2 min faster on average for each mile. I'll take what I can get!
9.16 min average miles. Again my first 3 miles were fast and last ones slower, pacing...something to learn.
I was the 23rd woman of 64.
I was the overall 64th of 121 finishers. Smack in the middle, the race average time was 58:09.

I ran my 10k in 59:58 today!

That was 5 min faster than the last time I ran this course previously.

I was proud of myself!

That is an average of 9.39 min mile

In reality my first mile was fast, my last mile was fast and my middle miles were slower.

I was 83rd of 185 women. 249th of 414 finishers.

Whenever I felt like I was not trying hard enough, and my heart slowed down I just told myself to pick up the pace, and it seemed to work out okay:)

My time for this same race 3 years ago was 1:04, with an average 10:21 min mile.

the music I run to, the music I live through

Music has a very powerful effect on me, it has always been that way. It brings back memories, changes my mood, and even centers my reality.

I have recently been searching for songs to run by.

I have found some powerful discoveries.
In order to run to a song it
first of all has to have a fast, danceable quality.
It has to speed me up, not slow me down.
second I will like a song initially, but if the video is obscene or the lyrics to nasty I can’t listen to it! It just ruins the experience.

I guess I feel like there are so many good songs, why give any honor to the filth?

First I found Andy Grammer’s “keep your head up”
I found the video amusing, motivating and fun!
I like Bruno Maro’s Gernade also.

Then last night my family was driving home from dinner and I heard a song on KBCO I had never heard before. I liked it right away. One of the musical mysteries for me is if we fall in love with the songs we hear over and over again, or if we listen over and over again because we love the song. This song I heard I loved, but it was half way through, and all I got was the beat, the rhythm that I initially liked.

Than this morning I was driving the kids home from gymnastics.

I hear this song from the start to finish, heard what it was and rushed in to the computer to look it up.

I have listened to it about 10 times so far. I felt this overwhelming feeling like
“this song just saved my life!”
I don’t like to admit that.
It sounds so trifle...or pathetic...

Than I read a comment left on you tube
“This song saved my life, and im not kidding”

I wasn’t the only one!

In the song he says towards the beginning

“don’t give up, this song is for you”

WOW
I know I sound blond and silly, and very very young.
But what if these artists did write there songs for the soul that they could not see? We can all see pain around us. Yet there is so little that we can do to make anything better. I speak for myself in that I can’t even cure my own pain let alone begin to truly help or understand anyone else!




So what does “holding on” mean?

You know what I hate?

When I think I am running farther and faster than I actually am!

What a let down, stinkin google maps.

I was better off in the good old day of guessing about how far I went ;-)

It is odd though, it is so much in my mind, when I think I am going far I run slower, like a self full filling prophecy. I think I am going 3 miles so it will have to take me over 20 min, instead of just running my best. Something to think about...